RTEMS for NIOS2 update; new BSP for NIOS II simulator

[Joel Sherrill]

Thanks for announcing this.

Could you please let everyone know the status of the port?  Does it run 
hello,
ticker, etc?

Thanks.

--joel

Waschk,Kolja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some updates to my adaptation of RTEMS for use with Altera's NIOS2 softcore CPU:
>
> BSP: now named nios2_iss, adapted to run in the NIOS II instruction set
> simulator (using default ISS configuration with 1x JTAG UART, 1x Timer for
> clock, plus 1x additional timer for the tmtests).
>
> SCORE: Instruction cache is properly initialized and can be used if
> available in target.
>
> BSP and SCORE: Removed all header files that I previously just copied from
> Altera sources. What remains is a very minimal set of definitions that
> probably have to be extended in the future as required.
>
> TOOLS: Initial (not yet finished) version of nios2gen, a tool to derive a
> custom BSP setup from a SOPC Builder system description *.PTF file.
>
> A single tar.gz archive contains my patches to newlib-1.14, rtems-cvs, and
> a small script that I'm using to build it all. The archive is available as
> the first in the list of downloads listed on
>
>   http://www.ixo.de/info/rtems_nios2/
>
> I hope the archive is complete and I didn't exclude anything important.
> Don't hesitate to mail me if you find something missing.
>
> I'm still using a wrapped Altera's nios2-elf toolchain and not a proper
> nios2-rtems one. However, I finally managed to create a quite clean set of
> patches to make a source tree (from GNU original sources) compilable for
> nios2-elf, and Joel already offered to help with the creation of a
> nios2-rtems configuration. Therefore, there's hope that someday we'll get a
> real nios2-rtems-gcc. Those patches are available on request only because
> they're quite large and the www.ixo.de server isn't made for big traffic.
>
> Kolja
>
>